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Villy Christensen is an ecosystem modeller with a background in
fisheries science. He is known for
his work as a project leader and core developer of Ecopath, an ecosystem modelling software system
widely used in fisheries
management. Ecopath was initially an initiative of the
NOAA, but since primarily developed at the
Fisheries Centre of the University of
British Columbia. In 2007, it was named as one of the ten
biggest scientific breakthroughs in NOAA’s 200-year history. The
citation states that Ecopath “revolutionized scientists’ ability
worldwide to understand complex marine ecosystems”.

Biography

Christensen did his Ph.D under Sven Erik Jørgensen at Copenhagen
University. Jeffrey Polovina initiated the Ecopath
approach in the early 1980s. Christensen, along with Daniel Pauly and others, has been involved in
the subsequent development of Ecopath since 1990.